America, cake yeah!

By Cory Doctorow at 12:01 pm Wednesday, Apr 18 • Comments • Share

Love and Lots of Sugar has documented some of the creation of a remarkable Captain America fourth birthday cake that, in cross section, displayed the stars-n-stripes. It's a really sweet bit of topology-based baking, and, judging by the photos, was a smash-hit.

The last picture I posted hit it big on Reddit. Some really nice things have been said. (Thanks, Fipi Lele!)

Awesome and enormous 3D R2D2 cake

By Cory Doctorow at 11:01 am Thursday, Apr 12 • Comments • Share

Mark sez, "My amazing and beautiful wife arranged had an R2D2 cake made for my 40th birthday. It was made by Stacked Cakes which is located in a small country town 20 kilometres outside Canberra in Australia. The link is to their log where there are photos and video of it being made."

They also include downloadable templates for making your own R2D2 monstercake.

R2D2 Step By Step (Thanks, Mark!)

HOWTO make a scrumptious life-sized Stormtrooper cake

By Cory Doctorow at 6:00 am Monday, Jan 16 • Comments • Share

Oakleaf Cakes, creator of the life-sized Stormtrooper cake we featured yesterday, have a post up detailing the fella's construction, right down to his rice krispie skeleton.

The building of the Stormtrooper cake was an epic event in and of itself. It took our entire wonderful crew of ten people two full weeks of to put this guy together (although the cake wasn’t added until 2 days before it was to be served). Along the way we even had to invent completely new cake making methods so it could be put together modularly onsite, hold its fondant over long vertical stretches, and stand on two beautifully sculpted Rice Kripsy legs that supported his 300 lb body –all while keeping every bit of cake tasting light, fluffy, and delicious!

We built a life-size Stormtrooper and he was delicious.

Jabba the Cupcake

By Cory Doctorow at 5:38 am Sunday, Nov 27 • Comments • Share

Who knew that fondant icing was such a great medium for sculpting Hutts?

Jabba cupcake (via Super Punch)

21 lb layer cake containing three pies

By Cory Doctorow at 2:07 pm Wednesday, Nov 23 • Comments • Share

Chef David Lowery created this "Cherpumple" -- a "dessert version of the turducken," composed of "CHERry, PUMpkin and apPLE pie," baked into three separate cakes, then assembled into an enormous layer cake.

Working in the Grand Geneva Resort pastry kitchen, I had some time to make a Cherpumple and serve it at Sunday Brunch. My Cherpumple weighed 21 lbs 10 oz and was seen by over 200 guests that Sunday. I was very pleased that it stayed standing until the final 1/8 was cut 4 hours after the first slice was taken. Will be doing this again.

Sunday Brunch Cherpumple (via Neatorama)

Kick-ass Portal 2 Space Core cake

By Cory Doctorow at 5:09 am Wednesday, Aug 3 • Comments • Share

Flickr user Sharkhats commissioned this beautiful Portal 2 Space Core cake from Mike's Amazing Cakes of Seattle as an anniversary treat (having been married with a fabulous Katamari Damacy cake).

Portal Space Core Cake closeup (via Wonderland)